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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Sisto Averno, American football player (born 1925)[â ]
Sisto Joseph "Joe" Averno was an American football guard and linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the original Baltimore Colts (1950) and the franchises which succeeded it, including the New York Yanks (1951), Dallas Texans (1952), and the second iteration of the Baltimore Colts (1953â1954).
2012Michael Begley, Irish carpenter and politician (born 1932)[â ]
Michael Begley was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism from 1981 to 1982, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1975 to 1977 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1973 to 1975. He served as a Teachta DĂĄla (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1969 to 1989.
2012Thomas M. Cover, American theorist and academic (born 1938)[â ]
Thomas M. Cover was an American information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics.
2012David Craighead, American organist and educator (born 1924)[â ]
David Craighead was a noted American organist.
2012Manik Godghate, Indian poet and educator (born 1937)[â ]
Manik Godghate, popularly known by his pen name Grace, was a Marathi prose writer and poet. He is most popular as lyricist of the Marathi song "Bhaya Ithale Sampat Nahi", which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar as the title track for the TV serial Mahashweta. His book Vaaryane Halte Raan was awarded the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011.
2012Helmer Ringgren, Swedish theologian and academic (born 1917)[â ]
Karl Vilhelm Helmer Ringgren, was a Swedish theologian.
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The victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational was Woodsâs first in an official PGA event since the 2009 revelation of his serial infidelities and his subsequent divorce.
Online movements are probably not as effective as real world engagement, but occasionally they are powerful beyond the computer.
The Jayhawks rallied late to beat their former coach Roy Williams and reach their first Final Four since 2008, the year that another tournament victory over Williams led to a championship.
Jets Coach Rex Ryan said Sunday that he views Tim Tebow as a âfootball player,â valuable as more than just a backup quarterback to Mark Sanchez.
Testifying recently in a lawsuit that is unrelated to Copper Riverâs closing, its chief maintained that actions taken in the fall of 2008 by Goldman Sachs had done irreparable damage to his fund.
After losing everything in the collapse of the Irish economy, Frank Buckley built his home from bricks made out of shredded, decommissioned euro notes.
An investigation offers a sobering portrait of how Wyckoff Heights Medical Center has been undermined by the very people entrusted to run it.
For a town in northern Nigeria already living in fear of a violent Islamist group, the arson of school buildings is the latest outrage.
Redistricting in Iowa has pitted two longtime members of the house, Tom Latham, a Republican, and Leonard L. Boswell, a Democrat, against each other.
The computer software giant won a court order to enter two Web hosting facilities last week in a war against so-called botnets that scour the Internet for personal data to steal and exploit.
The Federal Trade Commission asked for legislation that would give consumers access to the information collected on them by so-called data brokers.
Bariatric surgery, in which the stomach is stapled and the small intestine rerouted, puts the disease into remission far more often than drugs, diet and exercise, researchers say.